Team Consent-Is-Important-And-So-Is-Freedom
It's something we can add to the list. Both of things to research, and ways in which this place is bribing us to stop.
Point one is figuring out if there's a 'person' (I use the term loosely, feel free to substitute sentience / deity / other words as per personal preference) behind all of this. We think we have a way of checking, and a plan for how to do so without breaking anything.
If there is, then making contact is our next sensible step. If not, we turn our attention to how magic works here, see if it's a process any of us can learn and / or hijack.
Parallel to this, we've people working on whatever native knowledge the DOA has been able to provide, and making contact with locals outside of that, figuring out how they explain everything.